Dale Carnegie on persistence
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
— Dale Carnegie
Henry Ford on goals
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
— Henry Ford
Seth Godin on persistence
“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.”
—Seth Godin
Sister Busche on perseverance
We are like tea bags - we don’t know our own strength until we’re in hot water.
- Sister Busche
William Channing on difficulties
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-William Ellery Channing
George Patton on challenges
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-George S. Patton
Robert Ingersoll on courage
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
- Robert Ingersoll
Theodore Roosevelt on truly living
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Michael Jordan on the heart
“The mental toughness and heart are a lot stronger than some of the physical advantages you might have. I’ve always said that and I’ve always believed that.”
- Michael Jordan as quotes in Mindset, pp 86
Leonardo da Vinci on obstacles
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
- Leonardo da Vinci